Please correct me if I'm reading it wrong.
Saying "To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued." Also seems disingenuous at best...
Sounds good to me. No more annoying adware extensions.
We are removing sideloading (The ability to silently install extensions from your local machine as an xpi file)
- This will not affect the ability to manually install extensions, they will need to be installed from a source code directory (Link to chrome post on same)
- This makes users safer (Malicious extensions will need to be approved and installed by a user)
- This makes it more obvious when an extension is installed (Confirmation dialog)
ETC
Thanks for making me read into it further
Isn't this how distributions install browser extensions from package repositories? Now I can pacman -S an extension. With this change I will not be able to.
More control, right.
I think that's pretty fair. Lots of other software that interacts/loads into another bit of software requires manual configuration.